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About Jacksonville miner. (Jacksonville, Or.) 1932-1935 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1934)
Friday, October 12, 1934 The JACKSONVILLE MINER Page 4 Bums had a dog. a real dog. Sundays and overtime, I paid off thia obligation in full in less than a month. The engineer never showed up to collect the $00 due him. so it must have been hr who set the mill on fire Just took his wages out in revenge on Burns and calk'd it square I never heard from Burna and was glad I didn't Changing the subject a little. Since that time I have always B.v <1. C. REYNOLDS J some coal miners in Colorado, ered some chunks of fresh meat tried to avoid ¡tropic who poa- It is said there are only 12 men close to where I was working full of ground glass Then we knew sessed ungovernable letnpeiM My that without doubt that it was the in the entire world who can under about 45 year« ago, found the engineer ’s work. And we knew own temper was bail enough und stand Professor Albert Einstein's bones of a giant lizard in a gixul there was no hope for thp dog He It took me years to overcome it. theory of relativity I have done state of preservation. Scientists was doomed a most agonising but it is my private opinion that my darndest to be the thirteenth, were notified and at once came death When to that was made plain any person who has a temper they but after two years study, must and took charge of the excavation. Burns wept like a child. Many of can't control at all is as nutty as give it up and call myself licked. Gentlemen, that was some lizard. the men went around with tears the majority of the nitwits in the When his bones had been dug up For awhile I was getting along in their eyes unashamed It was crazy house and ought to b»> sent and arranged as they were in life, fine. I can realize the shortest dis decided he must be killed to put there tx'fore they injure somebody. tance between two points is a they showed him to have been 85 him out of his misery, but not a To science and to science alone I curve. I can understand that if I feet in length and a man six feet man wanted to be the executioner. give all the credit for gaining the started out and traveled for sev tall could walk right through near I am sure I didn't. I have seen eral million years through space, ly all the way. It was in this same men I had far rather kill than that I would land right back here in section where the giant lizard was dog. But someone must do it After Jackson county. Oregon And it is found I went through a rather a day and night, during which easily seen that a train speeding bitter experience. I have a hard everything that could be thought ■ ■VPR ■ Children 10»' 60 miles an hour is shorter than head, but when experience pounds of was done to ease his suffering, a lesson into it, I find I do not one that is standing still But when though to no avail, it fell to me to Saturduy Only Einstein says that a fall from any soon forget it. fire the mercy shot. I went up to This was in the early eighties him. petted him for a bit, then height is not the result of gravita KKN MAYNARD In tion, but is caused by the earth when times were booming in the showed him my gun. He smelled coming up and hitting the falling west. I went in with a fellow of it and his intelligent eyes object, I find it too complicated named Burns and we bought a showed he understood. I said. "Old for my feeble brain to assimilate. portable sawmill. For its size it Friend, I am going to do you a In fact, I don’t believe a word of it. was a first-class outfit. We could kindness and put you out of your | “PIRATE TREASURE" If the earth were flat, it might cut 15.000 feet of lumber a day pain." He reached out his tongue | possibly work out, but listen here: 1 and sell every bit of it for a good and licked my hand and I shot him Sundaj and Monday Suppose ar. airship several miles I price in cash, though we piled up square between the eyes. Then I up was fal'ing over Oregon, and a the clear stuff in the yard to sea went off in the woods and bawled balloon miles high in the air was son. after which it was worth a like a baby for an hour. 4 Marx Brothers fulling on the other side of the still higher figure. We had a dandy A week later a dozen of us were I location where the ground was just world, ai’d a million other object In sleeping soundly in the bunkhouse. were falling from different heights I right for logging and everything Bui ns of course was with his wife 1 else was just right except that we all over the world, as happens in the little_ shack they had to were short of water. To overcome themselves. Three of the loggers every second of time. Do I believe that our earth this we built an enormous tank in who had families were at their jumps up in different places a mil side the mill and by letting this separate camps nearby. A vivid, Tumday luid Wrdnr»<hiy lion times or more each second, to fill up at night we had plenty of bright light shone through one of meet these objects ? I do NOT. water to run the mill, while the the windows in my face. Slowly it Right there is where I quit. Pro surplus was stored outside for the penetrated to my inner conscious fessor Einstein can take his rela use of the camp and to water the ness and presently I awoke. In a tivity and go to blazes with it and 20 yoke of work oxen that we had second's time I was out of bed ..♦HI n a ala,. with RICHARD ARLEN 1 1-11 ’11 study az. something else for for a a purchased with the plant, and did reaching for my clothes and letting change You see when the Lord our logging with. We paid our men loose a yell that brought the whole SAI J. Y El I.EKS made me something went wrong. good wages and everything ran as camp to their feet in a hurry. He either didn’t get my head on smooth as clockwork for three Our mill was a mass of flame. Thursday and Friday straight, or maybe put in a little months or so We worked hard, Frenzidly we rushed into a losing mud where my brains ought to be, made money hand over fist, paid buttle and desperately we fought, or something. Anyway. I have up what we owed on the outfit but nearly our entire supply of “The Crime of Helen never had the faculty of gulping and began to feel like we were on water was in the tank inside the down theories and statements like easy street. Stanley” mill and entirely surrounded by mest people have. Then our engineer got to buck fire. When morning came we were There are, for instance, little ing. Every week he would want a beaten, ruined, wiped out. Nothing with RALPH BELLAMY theories like Joshua stopping the couple of days off to go and get left but a few pitiful thousands of NH1RIJCY GREY sun from going around and Adam drunk, which put us to a lot of our best lumber we had been able being the first man that I never trouble to get a man to take his to save. When I went to bed that could swallow, not even with a place, some of these substitutes night I could easily have figured chaser. Other people by the mil proving to be unsatisfactory which myself $3000 to the good. After all lion can eat that stuff, smack their of course delayed the work when was over, accounts settled, men lips and call for more But as I they could not furnish enough paid mostly from the sale of our have stated, something went wrong steam to keep us running steady. work cattle and what little clear when I was being made. Probably My partner ordinarily was one of lumber that was left, we were in FUNERAL PARLORS Satan threw a monkey wrench the finest men I ever knew, but debt $85 Bum's hysterical wife Medford, Oregon into the machinery. Anyway, thia had a quick, unmanageable tem had made him promise to take her gift of gobbling down stuff with per that flared up in a second's back to her folks in Iowa. They out looking to see what I am being time, especially if he felt he was had barely enough money for that fed is something I have never been being imposed on. I never had any if they could induce me to assume able to do. But if you want to trouble with him, as I usually let the $85 debt. One of the loggers, know all about relativity, I’ll tell him have his own way whenever who was in fair circumstances, S. C. PETERS you. possible, but he had heated quar said he would wait for the money When a pretty girl sits on your rels with some of the men on oc if I would agree to pay it. I agreed. (D.M.D.) lap for an hour, it seems like a casions that it took considerable I found a job of rough carpen minute, but when you sit on a hot tact to smooth over. Bums formed tering at a new minjng camp near stove for a minute, it seems like a tremendous dislike for the engi by at $4 per day. By working Dentist an hour. So now you know all neer and after a couple of months about it and can go back to your or so of vainly endeavoring to in cabbage patch. The keenest mind duce him to straighten up and at ed scientists living, men to whom tend to business, he began to ride we owe all of our wonderful in him so hard on his return from his Opposite Post Office ventions. chemical knowledge and, weekly sprees that the engineer in fact, everything of value in our quit. Now the laws governing labor JACKSONVILLE lives, have never ceased their en those days were far different from deavors to unravel the basic law what they were in later years. For Instance, if a worker quit and couldn’t get his money, he copld sue for it and get judgment. But even at that, he couldn’t col lect for 90 days if the debtor wanted to be obdurate. 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